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thus responds the light
At the time, or at least in the present, we are used to seeing Muslims carry their mat and pray, the legacy of the Mosque in the tent of the caravanserai variety, but at the time,WWII America, the idea of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Mirmelstein, Chaim Richman, Destruction of the Second Temple, Joseph Goebbels, Libera, Libera Lego death camp, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manuel Poliakoff, Martin Willen, Paddy Wivell, Peter Siebers architect, Prof. Gideon M. Greif, Yehuda Glick Temple Institute, zbigniew libera
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Lego: innocence engineering
Evidently, Lego toys are darker and more complex than consumers are willing to admit. Early in the twentieth-century, Sigmund Freud spilled the beans that even young infants harbored violent and sexual and violent fantasies. Freud scandalized, shocked, emerging middle-class sensibilities, … Continue reading
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Tagged bailey shoemaker richards, Feminist frequency, Heinrich Hoffmann, Jonathan McIntosh, LEGO city theme, LEGO club girl magazine, LEGO club magazine, LEGO friends, lego heartlake city, LEGO Heroica, lego toys, legofesto, Legofesto blogger, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
friends in the fire
From Jonathan McIntosh. Quite Brilliant. Does remind me of the Prada Death Camp ( Tom Sachs ) and LEGO concentration camp ( Libera) from the Mirroring Evil exhibit in New York about a decade ago, which means Jonathan as a … Continue reading
Unknown knowns: less favorite things
Sacred intensity? Is it kitsch, contrived, organized sentimental logic advocating tolerance or a gateway to perverse desires? The theory of Slavoj Zizek is that natural and caring urges ultimately lead to silly, maudlin fantasies or its flip side: the types … Continue reading
correctional devices
Truth at the margins. Playing with trauma and variations on holding the traumatic moment. There is an uneasy relationship with popular culture, kitsch, and an underlying current of fascism. As Adorno said, “The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, edouard manet olympia, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Ilya Repin, kazimierz switon, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, saul friedlander, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Lohengrin, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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lego : mirroring evil
A funny spoof on Lego sets and toy commercials is circulating on YouTube, but humorous in a somewhat disconcerting way. Almost a decade ago, Donald Kuspit made a famous assertion on a Rudolf Herz piece of art showing photos of … Continue reading
evil, what evil?
Can the world be mended of fragmentation? Is it our destiny to be treading water between connection, unity and oneness and highly radical, morbid and death infused darkness … de-realization, disorientation, and fragmentation. But also Klein’s epigraph to The Second … Continue reading
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